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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...Economic presented a relentlessly positive view of Jeremy Corbyn, an irredeemably damning view of his opponents, both outside and inside the party, and an intensely hostile view of the mainstream media. While partisan political blogging is not new, the new hyper-partisan sites have achieved a level of success outside the wonkish circles of their forebears. As pointed...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...economic, shopping and administrative life within Fermanagh is the county town of Enniskillen. No other centre of population comes close to its size and prominence. Much of the county’s industry is based in its natural resources. The internationally renowned Belleek pottery is founded on clay formed from the kaolin, feldspar and flint on the Belleek estate. The Irish...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...economic argument. As Andrew Mullen from Northumbria University discusses, the leave and remain campaigns employed similar strategies, but differed in their ability to connect with voters via social media. In his words, “The critical difference, […], was that the leave campaign was much more successful at targeting than the Remain campaign. Although the result was...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...economic model, the media, and so on. For once, we have to think long-term about our future. The result has usefully illuminated many of the stubborn problems that a post-Brexit Wales – whatever its constitutional status – must confront and tackle. As Richard Wyn Jones points out, the reality is that the Leave vote demonstrates the failures of devolution. Had the...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what cities do you...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...Zamir, E. et al. (2014) ‘Judicial Decision-Making’, in E. Zamir and D. Teichman (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law. Oxford University Press. Available at: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945474.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199945474-e-026 (Accessed: 12 November 2015). Forfeiture Act 1982 c.34...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...economic upheavals, are likely to disrupt societies and individuals in the future. Adapting to this context requires flexibility in coping with such disruptions effectively and without the certainty of what such problems will look like in the future. Psychological flexibility can be defined as the extent of how well a person adapts to changing situational demands,...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...economic experimental area in September 2013. The Chinese government issued a notice that welcomes foreign game companies manufacturing and selling game devices, after approval by the Ministry of Culture (in accordance with the guidelines of video-game censorship). Despite the uncertain future of China’s game market, Microsoft soon announced a partnership with BestTV, a...
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